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Life Time's revenue increased 32 percent to $162.1 million in the second quarter from $122.5 million during the same period last year. Total revenue for the first six months of 2007 grew to $315.2 million from $237.9 million during the same period last year.
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The State Farm® Tax Advantaged Bond Fund seeks as high a rate of income exempt from federal income taxes as is consistent with prudent investment management.
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Seeks as high a rate of income exempt from federal income taxes as is consistent with prudent investment management.
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You may want to invest in the Tax Advantaged Bond Fund if you want regular tax-free dividends or to reduce taxes on your investment income.
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Types of risk:
Interest Rate Risk
The risk that when interest rates increase, securities held by an Underlying Investment will decline in value. Long-term fixed income securities will normally have more price volatility than short-term securities because of the risk.
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The risk that the income from a fund's investments will decline because of falling market interest rates.
Credit Risk
The risk that an issuer of a debt security might not make interest and principal payments on the security as they become due. If the issuer fails to pay interest, the income of an Underlying Investment investing in such debt security might be reduced, and if the issuer fails to repay the principal, the value of that security and of the Underlying Investment's shares might be reduced.
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The risk that the fund manager's assessment of companies whose securities are held in the fund may prove incorrect, resulting in losses or poor performance, even in a rising market.
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The risk that the fund manager may have difficulty selling securities the fund holds at the time it would like to sell and at the value the fund has placed on those securities.
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The risk that the value of a municipal security may fluctuate due to political, taxation, and legislative changes. It also involves the risk exposure to the conditions of economic sectors that municipal securities are normally issued to finance (such as education, health care, and transportation).
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Mark Sanchez's return to the Jets in 2013 is not a guarantee.
The team is open to all options with Sanchez, according to a source, including trading him or releasing him. The most likely scenario remains he returns next season to compete for the job because of his onerous contract.
The Jets benched Sanchez Tuesday, replacing him with Greg McElroy. The former first-round pick has gone from the future of the franchise to a burden.
A trade seems extremely difficult because it would have serious salary cap ramifications for the Jets and one league source said, "there will be no market for him. None." Sanchez has a league-high 50 turnovers in the last two years.
No team would take Sanchez's $8.25 million salary. The Jets would have to eat a decent amount of the money. One source estimated it would be at least $6 million. The best the Jets probably could get for Sanchez is a late-round draft pick that might improve based on Sanchez's playing time.
A weak free-agent quarterback class would work in the Jets' favor. A team with cap space might view him as a one-year stopgap. But his contract severely hurts the chances.
If the Jets trade him, his cap figure becomes $8.9 million plus the amount of the salary the Jets paid. So, if they paid $6 million, the cap figure becomes $14.9, that is higher than the $12.4 they would owe if they cut him with a June 1 designation.
The person making the call on Sanchez may not work for the Jets either. After another season with no playoff appearance, general manager Mike Tannenbaum could be the fall guy.
When asked if he would like to remain a Jet yesterday, Sanchez said "of course" before sidestepping all further questions about his future.
Sanchez said he understands and respects Jets coach Rex Ryan's decision to bench him, but he doesn't have to like it or agree with it. Sanchez would not talk about 2013.
"No, we haven't looked ahead that way yet," Sanchez said. "You want to be out there playing. I'm not going to just concede. You've got to compete, so I'll just keep doing it.
"Rex went with a decision to go with Greg. I respect his decision. I don't necessarily agree. But at the same time, I've got to help Greg and that's really all I'm focused on.''
Ryan did not want to talk about next year.
"Any long-term discussion would probably be better served for after the [season finale],'' said Ryan, who had given Sanchez a glare as he walked past him on the field after Monday night's 14-10 loss to the Titans, then told him in the postgame locker room that he had been demoted.
Sanchez said he let Ryan know he did not agree with the decision but knows it's Ryan's call.
"It's disappointing," Sanchez said. "You just hate letting other guys down on the team and that's the worst part of it. You're going in there, trying to play well and improve and [I] just made some bad decisions. I just have to take care of the football better and own up to my mistakes and get better."


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Helen Zhao responds to the claim that it is unacceptable to retain personal wealth.
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The natural conclusion to both Smith and Singer's arguments is that all of us who live lives of comfort and frivolity are living immorally. Both protest this. Smith attempts to defend the assertion that moral duty becomes greater the more wealth you have, claiming the existence of some "maximum moral income" above which it is morally wrong to keep any money one may earn. First, there is the obvious fact that any such "maximum moral income" would be impossible in practice to determine. Should it be based upon what a person needs to survive? To flourish? To self-actualize? All of these are nebulous concepts with no universal dollar amounts attached. Second, this runs contrary to his most important line of reasoning: that it is wrong to use money for any purpose other than helping those who need it more. To illustrate this point, let us consider an amendment to Singer's analogy.
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The New York Power Authority will host the 27th annual Wildlife Festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 22 and 23. The free family event will take place at the Power Vista, the Niagara Power Project's Visitors Center, and its surrounding grounds at 5777 Lewiston Road, Lewiston.
Parking is free and will be available in the Power Vista parking lot as well as adjacent parking lots at Niagara University. Shuttle service will be provided from parking areas to the festival. In addition, the Niagara Scenic Trolley will provide free rides throughout the event between the Gorge Discovery Center and the Niagara Power Vista courtesy of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
•Read Emily Kaufman's Wildlife Festival blog
The Niagara County Federation of Conservation Clubs is returning with its popular rifle range and co-sponsors the event that hosts more than 50 exhibitors. Other returning exhibitors include:
•Renowned Western New York naturalist Carmen Presti of the Primate Sanctuary in Niagara Falls.
•Jeff Musial from Nickel City Reptiles and Exotics with presentations about the world of reptiles, mammals and birds from around the world.
•Hawk Creek Wildlife Center, Buffalo Zoomobile and Aquarium of Niagara.
•A fishing pond courtesy of the Niagara River Anglers Association.
•Interpretive nature programs by the state Parks Department on various hiking adventures.
•Niagara River Iroquois Dancers.
•Skyhunters - an exhibit of birds of prey.
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•Paul Schnell from the Institute for Environmental Learning, who has participated in the festival since it began in 1985, will bring along "Liberty the Bald Eagle" and other raptors, such as a screech owl, a peregrine falcon and a red tail hawk.
•Mike Randall, of Randall and Friends, with funny, fast-paced shows utilizing magic, ventriloquism and audience participation.
•Children 15 years old and younger can participate both days in the Wildlife Festival Kids Fishing Derby. Fishing can take place at any of Niagara County's popular public fishing waters, including the NYPA reservoir and fishing pier. Scales will be open at the Niagara Tourism and Convention Corp. tent between noon and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. First-, second- and third-place winners will be announced in three age categories (7 years old and under, 8 to 12 years, 13 to 15 years) at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23. There also will be awards and prizes for biggest catch from the NYPA reservoir and fishing pier.
•Niagara PAL, the Carolyn's House Culinary Arts Program, Boy Scout Troop 841, Cub Scout Pack 841 and the Cambria Junior Firefighters Explorers Post No. 0432 will operate food booths at the festival.
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GGRM acquired SP-1487 in March, 1995 through
the Department of General Services Surplus Property Program, which
allows non-profit museums to obtain government surplus property.
This engine was formerly U.S. Army No. 1847, based at Hawthorne,
Identical first generation locomotives of this type
were purchased by the Southern Pacific and were based almost
exclusively in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the early 1950's,
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Fairbanks-Morse was in the marine engine business in
WWII, producing opposed-piston engines for submarines. In contrast
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starting torque, and were ideal for switching and commute
locomotives. They incorporated their unique diesel engines into
switchers such as the H-12-44. SP-1487 is one of the few survivors
of this type.
The FM diesel has been painted to replicate SP
locomotive No.1487, black overall with orange tiger stripes. The
distinctive ash-can oscillating headlights and number boards that
were common to SP locomotives have been added as well.
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PHOENIX (AP) -- Gov. Jan Brewer's staff worked with proponents of a bill that would have allowed businesses to refuse service to gays before the legislation was introduced in January, according to emails released by her office.
The meetings between Brewer's legal counsel and policy director came as the Center for Arizona Policy tried to make changes to a bill that was vetoed last year to make it more palatable to the governor. As Senate Bill 1062 made its way through the Legislature last month, it drew fierce opposition from Democrats, gays, civil rights activists and later the business community.
Brewer vetoed the legislation on Feb. 26. In a brief statement, she said the bill "could divide Arizona in ways we could not even imagine and no one would ever want." She also said the bill was broadly worded and could result in unintended negative consequences.
Brewer's veto came after companies including Apple Inc. and American Airlines and even national Republicans including Sen. John McCain urged her to veto the bill, saying it would hurt the state and could alienate businesses looking to expand there.
Emails released by the governor's office show her staff met with representatives of the Center for Arizona Policy. Brewer spokesman Andrew Wilder said such talks are routine and never come with a promise the governor will support the final product.
Her staff was most concerned about a provision in last year's legislation that allowed someone to sue before their religious rights were affected and for a "likely" burden on those rights. That provision was removed this year.
Center for Arizona Policy president Cathi Herrod blamed the bill's fate on opponents who misrepresented what it does.
"I believe the veto was politics at its worst,' Herrod said Monday, "The veto was of a bill that did not exist and the 1062 opponents were able to make the bill about something it was not."
She acknowledged she worked with Brewer's staff on the bill.
"The governor's officer raised several questions about the language, we had thorough discussions about the language and changes were made to the language based on those discussions," she said.
The bill would have shielded businesses whose owners cite sincerely held religious beliefs from being sued for denying service to gays. It would have allowed any business, church or person to cite the law as a defense in any action brought by the government or individual claiming discrimination.
Opponents called it a license to discriminate against gays or any other group that might draw a religious objection.
Herrod's group and supporters in the Legislature said the bill was a clarification of the state's existing religious freedom law and would not open the door to discrimination. They argued the law was needed to protect against increasingly activist federal courts.
Herrod's group wields great power among Republicans who control the Arizona Legislature. The social conservative group backs conservative Christian legislation and is opposed to gay marriage and abortion.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – King University and Barton College both struggled shooting over the course of the night. Combined with 22 turnovers, King dropped its fourth straight contest to the Bulldogs, 54-43. Tia Keitt had a surge in the second half to lead to Lady Tornado with 11 points. Freshman Stephanie Brantley scored more than 10 points for the fifth time this season.
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Both teams struggled shooting all night long as the two teams combined for a 26.7 field goal shooting percentage and 1-for-10 from beyond the arc.
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Sophomore Bonnie Durrett (West Paducah, Ky.) led both sides with 12 rebounds. Nine of those came in the second half and of those, seven were on the offensive end. Stephanie Brantley scored 10 points, marking the second time in three games she has had 10 or more points in a game and the fifth time this season.
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Objective: SWBAT identify vertical and horizontal asymptotes of a rational function from its equation.
Big Idea: Rational functions are explored using Nspire calculators to develop the rules associated with finding horizontal asymptotes algebraically.
For the first 2-5 minutes of class I will ask students to compare their work on the homework assignment from last night (Homework 6 - Rational Functions). I want the students to share their answers in their teams and tohelp each other with any issues they can at this point. Then, I will present page 2 of the Flipchart and have students text in the question that are most difficult.
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It was a hallmark, "blue bird" sunny day typical of the Russian River.
Although he had been fishing there many times before, Dan Bigley didn't take his pole with him this time.
He was dealing with too many emotions.
Instead, while his friends hiked off and fished, he sat with his dog on the beach throwing pebbles into the river, soaking in the sun and reflecting on where he'd been and how he got back.
Back, that is, to the patch of Kenai Peninsula ground where he was horribly mauled by a brown bear after a day of fishing years earlier in an event that made headlines and focused the state's attention on the then 25-year-old Girdwood resident and the stream he was fishing near Cooper Landing.
"It was a bit challenging emotionally," said Bigley, now a 35-year-old Anchorage resident, of returning to the Russian. "I had some of that hyper vigilance, some of that anxiety stuff about being there, particularly as my friends were wandering up river and I found myself there alone on the beach wondering about bears coming out of the woods.
"But at the same time I had to exercise ... a cognitive shift to accept and acknowledge that fear was not going to serve me well no matter what."
When the July 14, 2003, mauling that left Bigley disfigured and blinded occurred, Debra McKinney, then a feature writer for the Anchorage Daily News, was far away in a Fairbanks cabin.
"I just remember that it shook us all up," she said, remembering the feeling of the newsroom and of the reporters following the story.
"I don't know if any of us thought he'd ever be back," she said. "So it is not like I forgot about him. I always wondered what happened to that 25-year-old Girdwood kid.
"Then suddenly five years later I was out of story ideas."
McKinney and Bigley met and sat down in 2008 for a "where are they now" feature for the Daily News. Bigley said he was impressed with McKinney's storytelling abilities and asked her about writing a book.
"It really came out of telling my story to everybody and everybody I told, their response was, 'You should write a book,'" said Bigley, now the director of therapeutic foster care for Denali Family Services.
McKinney never gave much thought to the possibility of writing a book, she said.
"I would say, 'Well if the right story came along I would consider it,'" she said. "I had been telling other peoples' stories for years and years and there's some amazing people out there with some amazing stories, but Dan's was the only one that struck me as I could get behind this and devote myself to this."
The pair's devotion recently materialized in the 212-page, "Beyond the bear: How I learned to live and love again after being blinded by a bear," published by the Connecticut-based Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press. The book will be available nationally in early April.
Bigley and McKinney, who share a byline on the book, spent a year and a half writing it, contacting more than 50 people and collecting hundreds of hours of interviews. Bigley said he would have not been able to complete the book without McKinney's journalistic ability to piece stories together and to filter down the most important aspects of the narrative.
"In reading the book, there are places where I can tell it is my words, word for word almost transcribed interviews, and there's other portions where she definitely added a lot in the actual writing and descriptions," Bigley said.
Said McKinney, "It is sort of hard to separate (his story and my words) because he is so articulate with the way he tells his stories and he is kind of a gifted storyteller, which certainly made my job easy."
One thing Bigley said he would like the reader to take away from the book relates to how some people view his story of rehabilitation and triumph in the face of horror as "an inspiration."
Maybe so, he said, but he didn't get there alone.
"To me it is a real victory for humanity and for our community," he said. "It is not just a personal victory that I have done something great and therefore it's inspiring. It is inspiring to me that our community was able to pull this off with me and support me through this."
Moreover, he'd like the reader to realize how he was able to change his attitude about life despite his disability.
"The more I engage in life and pursue things that are of interest, or passions, or dreams and the more I engage in those things whether it is fishing or music or my career or my family ... that through engagement my life gets bigger," he said. "The bigger my life gets, the smaller my disability gets."
Despite being blind, Bigley said he returns often to fish the Russian and Kenai Rivers ever mindful of the area's bear population, but remembering that the statistical probability that he'd be mauled by a bear again are slim, he said with a laugh.
"I go there with a mind of fullness that I'm still able to go there, that I'm still able to fish and that I could have easily died there and I didn't," he said. "So I think there is some gratitude that's present."
While he has respect for the area and its inhabitants both human and otherwise, some other fisherman don't reciprocate that to him. Some have been disrespectful about a blind man combat fishing for salmon with what he called a "wild fly."
"I guess that can be frustrating to me, but I try not to be a bitter person," he said. "But I have ended up on a couple of occasions telling people that, 'Listen, to me it is remarkable that I'm here because I almost died right over there 10 years ago this summer.
"So maybe you could just have some respect and let me fish. If only you knew what I'd been through to be here to continue to fish."
For more information on Dan Bigley on "Beyond the bear," visit danbigley.com, or http://www.facebook.com/DanBigleyBearAttackSurvivor.
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Shaw jumped ahead against game one starter Jessica Blackwell, plating four runs in the first inning despite not getting a hit. Six batters drew walks and another run scored on an error by the third baseman. Blackwell got a strike out and a ground out to end the inning but Shaw led 4-0 at that point.
Coker got one run back on a RBI single by Marie Mascio in the bottom of the first and Blackwell went unscathed in the top of the second for a 4-1 Shaw lead. A bases-loaded double by Christan Morabito made it 4-3 and Coker made it 5-4 with a sacrifice fly from Mascio.
Junior Amanda Shelton entered the pitcher's circle in the top of the third and shut the Bears down the rest of the way. A huge nine run inning in the bottom of the third gave the Cobras a 14-4 advantage which they preserved for the five-inning victory.
Kimberly Atkinson hit her first collegiate homerun in the fourth inning and Stewart smacked her second blast of the year, a three-run shot in the first inning. Atkinson went 3-3 with three runs scored and four RBI in the game and freshman Whitney Watts picked up two hits and three runs scored.
Stewart went 3-5 on the day with four RBI and three runs scored and Morabito had two hits three RBI and four runs scored.
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MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters are now predicting that Isaac will become a Category 1 hurricane as it crosses the Gulf of Mexico instead of a Category 2.
National Hurricane Center director Rick Knabb told ABC's "Good Morning America" Monday that Isaac won't be as strong as they initially thought when it hits land somewhere along the north Gulf Coast.
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We are excited about the new Scouting year and all of the fun that is in store for kids. Wouldn't it be great to have some of your friends or son's best friends involved, or maybe neighbors, or teammates?
Let's invite them to join the adventure of Scouting. We've created this video you can forward to them that explains Scouting and the potential it has to build men of great character for our country's future.
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As an aspiring young jazz musician, I spent most of my waking hours either practicing my instrument or listening intensely to albums and jazz radio. It was my passion as well my music education and the single most cherished memory of my teenage years. Often when I listened to the music, I would try and imagine the story behind the album. Read more


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Kabuki is a form of modern, stylized Japanese theater that includes singing and dancing. Originally women were the only actors, playing both male and female roles, but as the performers began gaining the wrong kind of attention, young male actors called wakashu took over the roles.
There are 3 main types of Kabuki plays:
The full length plays usually have 5 distinct acts:
1. The jo is a slow opening which introduces the characters and plot.
2.,3.,4. In the ha, the events speed up, usually with a dramatic or tragic moment in the third act, and a battle in the second or fourth.
5. The kyu is a quick, satisfying conclusion.
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Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, 2005, NHK, dir. Osome Hisamatsu
Othello, 1960, dir. Tsuneari Fukuda
Desdemona, Othello, 2008, dir. Yoshihiro Kurita
Lord of the Lies, Richard III, 2007, Shochuku Theatre, dir. Hidenori Inoue
The Tempest, 1994, dir. Hanagume Neo-Kabuki


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The ability to throw a baseball or any object with speed and precision is unique to us humans. And that ability depends on certain features of our anatomy that arose in our ancestors over 2 million years ago, according to a study published in this week's issue of the journal Nature.
It's not that other animals can't throw. But their throws aren't as powerful as ours. Consider our closest relative, the chimp. "An adult chimpanzee can throw only about 20 miles per hour, despite being very athletic," says Neil Roach, an anthropologist at George Washington University and an author of the new study. In comparison, a professional baseball pitcher or cricket bowler can throw a ball at speeds of 90-100 mph.
So, what makes us such good throwers? To answer that question, Roach enlisted 20 athletes at Harvard University, many of them baseball players. He stuck reflective markers on their bodies — at the shoulder, the elbow, the wrist and the waist — and filmed the students using 3-D cameras as they threw balls into the distance.
"That allowed us to know how the motion was generated in three dimensions," Roach says. Next, he and his colleagues used mathematical modeling to analyze the individual movements of the parts of the body involved in throwing.
Our shoulders, it turns out, are crucial to high-speed throws, Roach says, because they store a lot of elastic energy, thanks to a crisscross of ligaments and tendons.
These bands of connective tissue are thick and short. When a pitcher prepares to throw by cocking his arm, the fibers controlling the shoulder get stretched like an elastic band. When he whips the arm forward to throw, the muscles, ligaments and tendons spring back to their original positions and release their elastic energy — propelling the ball from his hand. The pitcher's shoulder acts like a slingshot.
Human shoulders are broader than our primate cousins', and our shoulder blades are located along the flat of the upper back, explains Daniel Lieberman, a physical anthropologist at Harvard University and a co-author of the study. The shoulder blades of chimps, on the other hand, are positioned more along the side of the body, he says. "If your shoulders are more vertically oriented — like in a chimpanzee — then the muscles can't generate that much power.
"Our earliest ancestors also had chimp-like shoulders," Lieberman says. But evidence from two fossils suggests that may have changed with Homo erectus, a species that lived about 2 million years ago. The fossils Lieberman and his colleagues examined had shoulders resembling a modern-day human's.
Homo erectus shared two more features with humans that Lieberman and his team think crucial to the ability to throw with power: a slender, flexible waist, which allows us to twist the torso in relation to our hips and legs, and a twist in the shape of the humerus, the bone that connects the shoulder to the elbow. These features "evolved bit by bit," Lieberman says, "but they appear all in a package in Homo erectus."
He and his team think the ability to throw also gave this ancestral species an evolutionary advantage. "We don't have fangs. We don't have claws and massive paws," Lieberman notes. Without such built-in weapons, the ability to hurl objects with force and precision must have allowed Homo erectus to become a more efficient hunter.
"Homo erectus's long limbs and relatively slender body have long suggested to anthropologists that there's something different about this creature," says John Shea, an anthropologist at Stony Brook University who wasn't involved in the study. He notes that previous studies by Lieberman have suggested that Homo erectus was a good runner.
"You put these things together," Shea says, "and you have the primate equivalent of a fighter jet — something that can run for a long time, and has projectile weapons on board."
Shea thinks those projectile weapons were likely to have been stones of some sort. (The oldest spears go back only about 400,000 years.) Archaeologists often find "hand-grenade-sized stones" along with skeletons from that era, he says. And scientists initially thought the rocks might have been raw materials for stone tools. But in light of the new findings, Shea says, those stones may well have been weapons used by ancient humans to hunt or to chase away another predator from their kill.
Baseball, of course, is called America's pastime, and while the ability to pitch a ball is not unique to our country, it turns out that it is unique to our species. A new study in the journal Nature suggests that the ability to throw with speed and precision depends on key features of human anatomy, features that may have given our ancestors the evolutionary edge they needed to spread across the world. NPR's Rhitu Chatterjee takes a closer look into the findings of the study by first making a trip to a local baseball diamond.
RHITU CHATTERJEE, BYLINE: Pitching is hard work, and it's something that kids at the Homerun Baseball Camp in Washington, D.C. are learning.
JOHN MCCARTHY: Right here. Harry, on the line. Here, let's all do it together. Ready? Follow Coach Matt.
CHATTERJEE: As Coach John McCarthy prepares to pitch, he curls up his left leg and reaches back with his right hand, pulling his shoulder as far back as he can.
MCCARTHY: Look at my hand. Look at my hand.
CHATTERJEE: He swings his arm forward and sends the ball flying. Pitching involves the entire body, but anthropologist Neil Roach of George Washington University wanted to know which parts are most important. So he had 20 athletes throw a ball while he filmed them a 3-D video camera.
NEIL ROACH: And that allowed us to look at how the motion was generated in three dimensions.
CHATTERJEE: He used mathematical modeling to break down that motion into movements of individual body parts. As it turned out, the shoulder played the most important role. Dan Lieberman is an anthropologist at Harvard University and an author on the new study.
DAN LIEBERMAN: As you cock your arm back, you store up huge amounts of elastic energy in the muscles and the other tissues that cross the front of your shoulder.
CHATTERJEE: In other words, our shoulders work like slingshots. When we pull the arm back and behind us, we stretch the ligaments and tendons. When we move the arm forward, the tissues spring back, powering our throws with their elastic energy. The reason our shoulders can do this is because our shoulder blades are placed flat on our backs.
LIEBERMAN: If your shoulder were more vertically oriented, like in a chimpanzee, your muscles can't generate the same amount of power.
CHATTERJEE: Lieberman says the earliest human ancestors also had chimp-like shoulders. But that changed about two million years ago. That's when the ancestral species Homo erectus came into the picture.
LIEBERMAN: They widened and broadened their shoulders significantly in the genus Homo.
CHATTERJEE: Now, the authors were only able to study two fossils, so they can't say for certain exactly how human-like these Home erectus shoulders were. But being able to throw with power and precision, Lieberman says, must have been advantageous to our ancestors. If you consider humans, he says...
LIEBERMAN: We don't have natural weapons. We don't have fangs and claws and massive paws.
CHATTERJEE: So hurling things is about the only thing we can do to bring down our prey. Anthropologist John Shea of Stony Brook University, who wasn't part of the study, agrees. He says previous studies have suggested that Homo erectus was also a good runner.
JOHN SHEA: Now, you put these two things together, and basically you've got, you know, the primate equivalent of a fighter jet. You've got something that can run for a long, long time and has projectile weapons onboard.
CHATTERJEE: He says the new findings may explain why the species were so successful. They are thought to be the first human ancestor to spread all over the world.
SHEA: They are the first of these ancestral hominids that's found at the same time in Africa, Europe and Asia.
CHATTERJEE: No one knows what they were hunting with two million years ago, but Shea thinks they probably used stones about the size of a baseball. Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Backyard 1-Ton Dodge Ram Axle ConversionPosted in How To: Transmission Drivetrain on July 1, 2010
"Work hard and play hard" is an expression we've heard for decades and something most truck owners live by. While many wheeling enthusiast often push their 1/2-tons to the limit, a few actually manage to break beyond the light-duty drivetrain's capabilities. This is often the result of larger tires, power upgrades, or a general no-nonsense approach to driving and heavy-duty work expectations. So what's a 1/2-ton wheeler to do?
When buying a new 3/4- or 1-ton truck isn't in the budget, most turn to the junkyard for a beefier set of 1-ton axles. Since 1-ton axles are of a full-float design they can handle extra weight, power, and oversized tires more easily. And when you factor in bigger brakes and massive differentials it's easy to see why dropping a set of 1-tons under your 1/2-ton pickup is a worthwhile investment.
Though flashes of fabricating axle brackets and new suspension components often scare many away from attempting a heavy-duty axle conversion, a few light-duty platforms allow 1-ton axles to practically bolt in place.
A great example of this is the '94-'01 Dodge Ram 1/2-ton 4x4. Since both second-generation light- and heavy-duty Ram trucks use a coil-sprung solid front axle and a leaf-sprung rear, they are relatively easy to interchange.
To test this theory we stripped the axles out from our buddy's '94 Dodge 1/2-ton pickup and replaced them with a Dana 60 front and Dana 80 rear from a second-gen 1-ton Dodge. While this swap is mostly bolt-in, a little cutting and welding are required. Overall, it is possibly one of the easiest 1-ton axle conversions we've ever encountered and a great upgrade for the '94-'01 1/2-ton Dodge.
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There always seems to be a catch when a swap is going too smoothly. Ours came in the form of a mismatched gearset. Luckily, we were looking to regear, so we upgraded the ring-and-pinions with 5.13 gears from Superior Axle & Gear. For the driveshafts we had the front shaft shortened by JE Reel Drivelines, and the rear shaft was pulled from under a '98 1-ton Ram we found in the salvage yard.


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Among the subjects, his initial impression with the talent he'll have at his disposal, plus his thoughts on recruiting thus far.
The following is what he had to say.
Q - What has been your first impression of the players you will have at your disposal?
A - "After working with them on Mat Drills, I'm excited to get spring started. I'm looking forward to getting these guys on the grass and seeing what they can do with some pads on. I'm real pleased with the players that we have here and I'm encouraged by their effort. From what I've seen in Mat Drills you're working to develop discipline and mental toughness and that's the thing you're trying to develop there and I've been very pleased with the progress made in those areas."
Q - Can you explain what you're looking for from your outside backers, inside backers the ends and the responsibilities of each?
A - "As an outside backer, you're an edge rusher so you've got to have some athletic ability, you've got to have some flexibility. You've got to be able to bend your body and get to the quarterback.
You've also got to have the ability to do some drops, most of the time it's a flat or a hook, but it's a short area drop. You've also got to have the ability to tackle in space because there's more range from the end of the tackle to the sideline sometimes so you've got to have the range right there.
"As an inside backer, you've got to have similar skill sets in terms of athletic ability; you've probably got a little more range, a little more of an ability to close to a guy in space. You've got more coverage responsibility as an inside linebacker, in other words you've got more areas, more zones, more matches, different matches, a little bit different run-fits. You're not going to rush the passer as much although it's still important you can do that, it's a different kind of rush. Coming off the edge, you're going to engage the tackle, be one-on-one with a tackle usually and we want to get backs, which I feel we will win those battles but we expect to get big guys, offensive tackles on our guys coming off the edge whereas when you come up the middle you usually get on backs inside, so it's a different kind of rush.
"As far as our ends, our D-linemen in general, they're going to have some pass rush. They're generally bigger guys, thicker guys; they still have the length you look for but they may not have the skill set as an outside backer would have. But they're not asked to do the same kind of things because they're bigger guys. Really, when you talk about defensive linemen you're talking about guys you want to be physical at the point, physical at the line of scrimmage. You want guys that have some stoutness to them and can knock guys back and penetrate but yet have enough athletic ability that they can shed guys, escape blockers and they can win some one-on-one matchups inside, not only to disrupt the quarterback in the pass game, but also make some plays in the run game. That's the skill set of those three people."
A - "I've been really excited; I'm really pleased with the way recruiting is going. Basically, the way we've structured our meetings is we're working half days on recruiting, and then the other half to three-quarters of a day we're working on football, so that's more than a day, right? Basically, we're working a day-an-half within a day. Seriously, what we're trying to do is handle recruiting, evaluate all the players in the state of Georgia. I've been really excited with the players I've seen on tape, the talent that I expected to see is here and I'm excited to get guys on our campus and show them what we offer defensively, as well as what the University of Georgia offers. If we do that, like I told you before, if we can just get guys within a five-hour radius to come to our school, we can become very competitive and based on what I've seen on tape it's exceeded my expectations."
Q - Explain the dynamics of the defensive coaching staff and the strengths you feel the group brings?
A - "I think the critical thing is to make sure everybody's on the same page, making sure we understand what we're trying to get accomplished, making sure the language that we're talking is all the same because the guys that we hired I feel are good teachers. The big thing you've got to do when you're installing something new is be very precise in how you install it, you've got to be very consistent, you've got to all talk in the same language, make sure you're all on the same page so that the players understand and really that's what we've been trying to do as a staff."
Q - Will any of the defensive terminology be the same as last year?
A - "We're going to use our language, there might be something where a guy can say "same as" but the terminology we'll use is what I'm used to."
Q - How excited are the guys that they will be able to go after the quarterback?
A - "In general, players want to make plays so I think that's the big thing; I think that players want to win and players want to make plays. I think players also want to please the coach or they want to have success, look at it that way and as a coach if you can make players understand that you have their interest at heart, that you can make them a better player, they pay attention and I think they'll give you the effort that it takes to be successful because sometimes it comes down to winning a one-on-one matchup. You've got to be able to do those things. You can do those with technique, you can do that with athletic ability; the combination of both allows you to win more often than not so I'm looking forward to getting on the grass and letting them fly around with some pads on."
Q - What have been the biggest questions recruits have had for you?
A - "I think the biggest thing is just where guys would play. There's a little bit of an unknown about what is it, where would I fit in and I think that's the big thing about recruiting is you're developing a relationship with players, but you're also educating them on how they would fit in because it's a two-way street. We want to make sure we're getting guys that are going to allow us to win the SEC but at the same time, we want to make sure they understand how we're going to utilize them and how they would fit into our program because when they get here we want to make sure that they're happy and that everybody understands what's expected."
Q - How much of your system do you expect to install during the spring?
A - "It's important that we install our system, for first and second down on all the different personnel groups we're going to see; it's important we develop a third-down package, it's real critical that we identify the players that will help us compete for an SEC Championship and really define the roles for the players. I think it's critical you define the roles for each player so when they leave for the summer, here's what you can do to improve yourself, here's what you can work on so when we come back everybody's got an understanding.
"It's also important that we work on all the different offenses that we're going to see so when it comes Week 7 that we see something that may be a little different; we're fully ready for it. It's going to be a busy spring."
Q - How important will it be for your players to cross-train?
A - "I think the biggest thing is you need to have flexibility in your systems and the players need flexibility because I've always said you evaluate your players 1-50. If somebody gets hurt you want to put the next-best player in the game so I think it's important that players are flexible, that they can adjust and that they can play more than one position so we will have more than those guys in there to see how they can do to give us some depth. I've always been a big believer that injury creates depth. Sometimes you're afraid to put a guy in there then all of a sudden a guy gets hurt and you're forced to then all of a sudden it's like 'Hey, this guy can play' then the other guy comes back and you've got depth. So I've always believed that injury creates depth and that's why it's critical that guys learn more than one spot so to allow you to get the best players on the field. Scheme is important we're going to have a good scheme, but fundamentals area really critical and to have players that can make plays is critical. To make plays you've got to have your best players on the field, so it's going to be real critical to have your best players on the field."
Q - You've said DeAngelo Tyson and Kwame Geathers will play nose, what about Brandon Wood?
A - "He can play in there, he will be an end but he will play in there."
Q - What about DeMarcus Dobbs?
A - "Yes, again, anybody who plays end can play nose."
Q - Have you determined what players will play outside linebacker?
A - "Justin Houston will be an outside backer, Cornelius (Washington) will be an outside backer, Montez (Robinson) will be an outside backer. Richard Samuel will start as an outside backer for now."
Q - Where will Abry Jones play?
A - "Abry will start out as an end but again he will be a guy who can also play nose."
Q - What are your expectations for Richard Samuel?
A - "Basically with him it's just to let him get his feet wet with being a defensive player. We'll teach him the techniques, he's going to be raw but we want to let him go out and improve every day and as long as he does that and showcase his athletic ability, which he does. He's done an excellent job to date, I think it will be a growing process for him. I just want him to work every day to get better, just get his feet wet and the mindset that now you're chasing the guy with the ball. He'll have an understand of what's going to happen to him because sometime when you've got an offensive perspective, you have a feel for the formation that the ball's going here because you've been over there and understand that. So I think those things will help him. We're going to teach him to play with his hands, to shed blocks, tackle and finish the play. Those are things we will work on but athletically he has shown the skills that are needed, so I look forward to getting him out there in the spring."
Q - Could Richard redshirt?
A - "We have that (option) but right now we're just focused on getting guys ready for next year."
Q - Are there any bad habits you need to get your players to change?
A - "The only thing I did was when I came here was to evaluate the players and just get a feel for their athletic ability, where I thought they would fit in our scheme and as we move forward I'm just interested in making them better players, make them fundamentally sound in what we want them to and that's the approach we're going to take. We're going to introduce our system to them but I think it's real critical that you develop your fundamentals in spring practice and that goes to attacking blockers, playing with your hands, shedding blocks understand where the ball carriers in relative to your position and tackling.
"There's all kind of different tackling. There's inline tackling, there's angle tackling, there's in space one-on-one, there's space with another guy, inside outside; there's space sideline tackling. We'll expose them to all kinds of tackling but I think it's real critical that you develop those fundamentals in spring practice because it is a fundamental game; it's about attacking blocker, knocking a guy back, blocking and finishing the play. Those are the things we're going to emphasize."
Q - What have your meetings been like with the players so far?
A - "It's been very general. We've had them watch some tape, but I don't think there's anything like being on the field. So even though they've seen it, I think until you can go out and do it, that's the best way guys learn, to get a real feel for it."
Q - Is there much difference coaching professional players as opposed to those in college?
A - "Not really, most players generally want to succeed. You obviously have a different daily schedule, but you still have your meeting times and your development with the players. I feel like as a coach right now they really have, sometimes you have a veteran player it's hard to change that guy. But these guys are so young sometimes they don't have habits at all, so that can be a good thing, too. I don't think there's ultimately any difference. Players want to play, players want to have success and if you can get players to buy into your product, they will generally play hard. If players play hard, they're generally going to succeed."
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